New MRT: Thomson Line (TSL)
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Just to contribute our part where we can and share a bit of market news with all the fellow drivers here, though we dont think this would affect us in particular too much since we would be in for a short transition compared to your Full Time career. You're welcomed nonetheless.
Thomson Line to open from 2019 with 22 stations
SINGAPORE: Singapore's sixth rail network -- the Thomson Line (TSL) -- will open from 2019, instead of the indicative timeline of 2018 announced in the Land Transport Master Plan.
Minister for Transport Lui Tuck Yew, who gave an update on the Thomson Line on Wednesday, said the change in timeline is to accommodate some adjustments made to the original plan.
Under the final rail alignment plan of the Land Transport Authority (LTA), the TSL will be longer and have more stations.
It will be 30 kilometres long -- 3 kilometres longer than envisaged -- and have 22 stations, four more than originally planned.
One of them is Springleaf station, sited in Nee Soon Group Representation Constituency (GRC).
Ms Lee Bee Wah, an MP for the area, said: "Springleaf, most of the residents there, they are living in the private estate, landed properties, as well as some condominiums. So this station will be able to serve all these residents."
Another two stations are Woodlands North and Woodlands South in Sembawang GRC.
Ms Ellen Lee, an MP for the area, said: "It (TSL) will facilitate transfer, especially within the estate itself and it will solve the crunch that my residents feel whenever they take the MRT and when they take the buses."
TSL will run from Woodlands in the north to Marina Bay in the south and is expected to be built at an estimated cost of around S$18 billion.
It is expected to have a daily ridership of 400,000 commuters.
Six of the 22 stations will be interchanges, enabling commuters to reach their destinations in the shortest possible time.
For example, a resident of Sin Ming travelling to Republic Polytechnic in Woodlands will halve his or her commute time from 50 minutes to 25 minutes.
Another at Woodlands Regional Centre heading to Marina Barrage will take 55 minutes instead of 70.
With six interchange stations, the TSL will connect to all existing lines and the future Downtown Line (DTL).
"All in, about 160,000 households will be within 10- to 12-minute walk from one of these stations. So you will have an additional option. Instead of having to take a feeder bus or find a way to get to one of the stations on the North-South Line, these 160,000 households can choose to walk to one of the Thomson Line's stations as an alternative," said Mr Lui.
TSL will connect to the North-South Line at Woodlands and Orchard stations.
Caldecott Station will connect to the Circle Line.
Residents of the Bukit Timah stretch can change trains at the future DTL Stevens Station to connect to the TSL.
The Outram Park Station will connect the TSL to the East-West Line and North-East Line, while the Marina Bay Station will connect the TSL to the North-South Line and Circle Line.
TSL will open in three stages from the north to the south.
Phase One, which will have three stations from Woodlands North to Woodlands South, will open in 2019.
Phase Two will be ready in 2020, with stations from Springleaf to Caldecott.
The final stretch of 13 stations from Mount Pleasant to Gardens by the Bay will open in 2021.
When fully operational, an estimated 60,000 households will be within 400 metres of one of the TSL stations.
The line, which will be fully underground, will run on a four-car instead of a three-car system.
Mr Lui said this will give it additional capacity to cope with any increase in long-term demand.
He was speaking during a visit to Telok Ayer Station of Downtown Line One, which will open by the end of next year.
Mr Lui also said: "During the construction phase (of the TSL), there will inevitably be a certain amount of inconvenience, noise pollution. We will try our best to minimise this as much as possible. We will of course want to engage the residents, dialogue with them, find ways to meet as much as possible some of the points that they raise."
LTA, Singapore Land Authority (SLA) and the Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) said in a joint statement that while all efforts have been made to minimise land acquisition, the government will acquire four full lots.
They include Pearl's Centre in Eu Tong Sen Street, a post office along Upper Thomson Road and two landed properties along Stevens Road and Robin Close.
Pearl's Centre will be affected by the construction of the TSL as a tunnel will run under part of the building.
To optimise land use around the future TSL station at Outram Park, Pearl's Centre will be acquired and integrated with the adjoining state land for a high-density mixed-use development.
Five other part lots will also be acquired but will not affect the main building structure.
The SLA gazetted the land affected by acquisition on Wednesday. -
MORE mrt station, more taxi driver on the road, we huat liao.
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No, we can retired very soon liao by that time. Those who think TS good income can start to join now.
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Oops
Graduatedriver starting another thread?
btw did he respond to all the hooha he created in that $15K income thread? too long liao, lazy to follow
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Originally posted by Gu7777g:
MORE mrt station, more taxi driver on the road, we huat liao.
More MRT = more breakdown = more business opportunities???
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Every spot a pax in front of you but saw another cab in front too? no chance liao?
not necessary true ok!
sometime, the cab in front got pax liao
alot of chance, np pax but knn, he doesn't want to pick
if i know he dun pick, I pick.
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I dunno, I got the notion that more lines means more breakdowns ...
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Originally posted by Reliefdriver4u:
I dunno, I got the notion that more lines means more breakdowns ...
LOL....... Great thinking ;)
HUAT AHHHHHHH
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More lines good. Means less jams on highway....also more place to do shuttle service....
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don't miss the forest for the trees.
many new lines coming up. but all have same problem.
all trains are medium size ones, just like circle line.
nice on paper, make your citizen happy, but wait till people quak seow inside, they will come back to flag cab.
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Ho say liao... knn. everywhere also got MRT...
next will be Woodlands to AP.
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Dig so many tunnels below us, knn, one tremor now sumatra only, maybe we can become sinkies.
We might end up living on a hollow base.
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Originally posted by bowah:
Dig so many tunnels below us, knn, one tremor now sumatra only, maybe we can become sinkies.
We might end up living on a hollow base.
don't be surprise tunnel collapse.heard last time build circle line serangoon tunnel almost major mess up cos ground soil weak.
they don't learn so will have to pay the price eventually.
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Originally posted by bowah:
Dig so many tunnels below us, knn, one tremor now sumatra only, maybe we can become sinkies.
We might end up living on a hollow base.
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Originally posted by Terry Young:
don't miss the forest for the trees.
many new lines coming up. but all have same problem.
all trains are medium size ones, just like circle line.
nice on paper, make your citizen happy, but wait till people quak seow inside, they will come back to flag cab.
Cos all sub-con to ah tiong mah... no big surprise to me. Next time maybe all the newly build HDB flats will also collapse . All ah tiong construction, no QC, no standard -
can anyone say if this will affect taxi? i knew a few people who will like its more direct to woolands on their way back across.
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Won't lah 1 extra station additional 2k per/mth when 22 stations are all operating whahaha...additional 44k per/mth hahahaha chiong mrt station can liao....btw r u a malaysian who are converting your citizenship?
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taxi drivers all retire and there will be less hatred against them!then they will long for us!when they really need us!
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Originally posted by GraduateDriver:
can anyone say if this will affect taxi? i knew a few people who will like its more direct to woolands on their way back across.
No, alot of people still prefer privacy, woodland to many taxi driver is a pain in the ass if you are doing nite and hv to go there, there in providing MRT can be a blessing for TD in a way that they got more time to ply other better income places.The opening of centre line, or earllier mrt to expo and airport may had add a little less income for TD as thought, but as times goes by, still many are taking taxis, not much an issue.
Singapore is feeling the heat of it infrastructure failure if it do not extend it MRT lines, and that can shame singapore who had alway been seen as the best infrastructure in Asia if not the world. The mass immigration had led to transportation problem, hospital bed problem, and many other problem that our govt scholars had failed to see, is like inviting many guests but never think about the drinks and foods.
Govt is now trying to recuperate this shortfall, which had angered locals in a way of being second class instead of true blue singaporeans.
The next point is the reduction of cars population adversely would result in adding more peoples taking public transportation, and that opportunity cost of a person taking a taxis or MRT is up to individual to decide.
Let us take an example of 4 persons going from woodland to orchard road, feeder bus services + Mrt would take each about $2.50, you add it up you get $10, a cab down to orchard under non peak can be around $16 to $18, each just come out a dollar more and you get privacy without the need to crowd around with others, walks, or maybe have to stand for the whole journey and yet have to walk again or change MRT or buses to their desired destination.
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Yaloh....4 pax take taxi during off peak most wu hua one. $10 can go very far loh....and no need wait for bus/MRT no need walk. So non peak hour like Sun day I see more then 2 pax I siam....Where got time. More pax=high fuel cost.....already no peak surcharge still so many people.....Cannot lah.....
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all full time taxi drivers alert 10 years down the road eat grass liao time to use this 10 years to find a new vocation
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ho say liao~~~~
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More train lines, more breakdowns?
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No long, our underground will become a honeycomb. I guess our govt still underestimate or simply do not know the meaning of going against nature
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For that matter, we already see flash floods, breakdown and collapses. Geographically speaking, we all know what is soil erosion, land mass changes and structure shift.
Even reclaimed land had shifted the sea water and fishes, and you see why fishermen from both side of the border are complaining, nature is a blessing, once you disturb it too much, it can be clastropic. tu di kong also not happy